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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Nashville, TN

January 13, 2013Maury County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 13, 2013, 3:06 PM CST for Maury County, Tennessee. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 13, 2013, 3:06 PM CST (21:06 UTC)
Expired: Jan 13, 2013, 3:30 PM CST
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Maury County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 68 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 36 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 359 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 389 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

576 
WFUS54 KOHX 132106
TOROHX
TNC119-132130-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0001.130113T2106Z-130113T2130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
306 PM CST SUN JAN 13 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN MAURY COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...

* UNTIL 330 PM CST

* AT 304 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF COLUMBIA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SPRING HILL.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3552 8712 3576 8692 3566 8681 3560 8682
      3559 8684 3558 8683 3546 8704
TIME...MOT...LOC 2106Z 224DEG 32KT 3555 8702

$$

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1 follow-up statement

103 
WWUS54 KOHX 132127
SVSOHX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
327 PM CST SUN JAN 13 2013

TNC119-132137-
/O.EXP.KOHX.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-130113T2130Z/
MAURY TN-
327 PM CST SUN JAN 13 2013

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN MAURY COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 330 PM
CST...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.

LAT...LON 3552 8712 3576 8692 3566 8681 3560 8682
      3559 8684 3558 8683 3546 8704
TIME...MOT...LOC 2127Z 224DEG 32KT 3568 8686

$$

TB12

The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 13, 5:14 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys and 4 more	6 hr
Jan 13, 8:50 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Benton, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys and 3 more	6 hr
Jan 13, 8:52 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Humphreys	38 min
Jan 13, 9:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Perry	45 min
Jan 13, 9:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Humphreys, Perry	24 min
Jan 13, 10:07 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Robertson	53 min
Jan 13, 10:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman	31 min
Jan 13, 10:45 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Hickman, Robertson, Williamson	60 min
Jan 13, 10:50 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys, Perry and 1 more	4 hr
Jan 13, 10:55 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson, Robertson, Rutherford, Sumner, Williamson, Wilson	4 hr
Jan 13, 11:26 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Davidson, Sumner	49 min
Jan 13, 12:23 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Macon, Trousdale	37 min
Jan 13, 12:55 PM CST	River Flood Advisory	OHX	Cheatham	36 hr
Jan 13, 1:16 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Davidson, Williamson	44 min
Jan 13, 1:40 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Davidson, Macon, Sumner, Trousdale	35 min
Jan 13, 1:49 PM CST	River Flood Advisory	OHX	Davidson	36 hr
Jan 13, 1:58 PM CST	River Flood Advisory	OHX	Perry	36 hr
Jan 13, 2:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson	28 min
Jan 13, 2:22 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Clay, Jackson, Macon, Smith, Trousdale	38 min
Jan 13, 3:01 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Bedford, Davidson, Giles, Lawrence, Marshall, Maury and 3 more	44 min
Jan 13, 3:18 PM CST	River Flood Advisory	OHX	Montgomery	48 hr
Jan 13, 3:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall, Maury, Rutherford, Williamson	24 min
Jan 13, 3:38 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	OHX	Benton, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Houston and 7 more	6 hr
Jan 13, 3:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Wilson	33 min
Jan 13, 3:43 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	OHX	Benton, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Houston, Montgomery and 3 more	6 hr
Jan 13, 3:44 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Giles, Marshall, Rutherford, Wilson	46 min
Jan 13, 4:01 PM CST	River Flood Advisory	OHX	Davidson	36 hr
Jan 13, 4:07 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	OHX	Cannon, Clay, Jackson, Macon, Rutherford, Smith and 4 more	3 hr
Jan 13, 4:39 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Cannon, Clay, Coffee, DeKalb, Grundy, Jackson and 7 more	51 min
Jan 13, 4:40 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Cannon, Clay, Coffee, DeKalb, Grundy, Jackson and 7 more	50 min
Jan 13, 5:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Grundy	34 min
Jan 13, 5:27 PM CST	River Flood Warning	OHX	Cheatham	14 hr
Jan 13, 5:30 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	OHX	Cumberland, Fentress, Grundy, Overton, Pickett, Putnam and 3 more	45 min
Jan 13, 5:38 PM CST	River Flood Advisory	OHX	Hickman	6 days
Jan 13, 5:51 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	OHX	Cumberland, Fentress, Grundy, Hickman, Overton, Putnam and 5 more	177 days

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.